Howdy! Twas me and bees! Maybe Upcountry Miss also - but I have been scouting out locations for my hives for the last few days. :-) Before the year is out I'll have those hives set up and buzzing. Just in time for spring garden!
Hope you're holding up Granny. I'm working hard as I can trying to keep up with my garden at the old house 30 miles from here, unpacking at the new house, and trying to get a fall planting plan going. Gotta get myself an asparagus bed started before this year is over. No sense in waiting an extra year for the 'spar'gus to get started I just gotta get it in this year.
Also got 3 or 4 erotion areas I've got to get planting to take care of. Only got a vague plan on those so far, but we've only been in the house 5 weeks now. August heat in Texas has been too danged hot to think about erosion control planting yet. I figure by the end of this month I should get that sorted out.
And believe it or not, it's been so hot here that I haven't even walked off the land completely here. Don't have the lay of it ingrained in my mind in total yet. I'm looking forward to some long cooler weather meanders to figure that out. We didn't get the amount of acreage we wanted, but we've got the side of a hill that has 2 small watershed (read deep gullies) on it that I have to explore better. And, we have ~very~ remote Corp of Engineer's land on 2 sides of us. ummm... i think we call that guerilla gardening/orchard land.
i think we call that guerilla gardening/orchard land.<<<
Yes, it is begging for perennial and self seeding plants.
Look at the ledges and top sides of the washes, they are often good spots for a few plants.
LOL, as I recall the wild grapes grew in the washes of Texas.
Thompson Seedless grapes will grow 40’ long branches, if not trimmed, they are what I used for shade inside one of the greenhouses, wonderful, a ceiling of grapes to eat and they give shade in the summer and drop the leaves in the winter.
You can grow grapes from the seeds in the grapes at the store, like all hybrids, who knows what will grow, but if you found the right spot, it would be fun to watch and see what did grow.
How I envy you all that land begging for your seeds.
Don’t over do it, we want you back here.
I am glad that you found your place, it is wonderful to live out a real dream.
Miss you.
>>>i think we call that guerilla gardening/orchard land. <<<
LOL we may all be doing that with the legislation 0bammy has in the pipeline - like H.R. 2749
Glad you are getting things ‘buzzing’ with the bees soon.
The way things sound down there, you won’t have to worry about the washes for right now... Hope you get some nice GENTILE showers in the meantime.
Good to see you back online.